Ramona Ausubel
Ramona Ausubel is the author of several celebrated works of fiction, including the national bestseller The Last Animal, which received the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize and was a Barnes & Noble monthly pick. She’s the winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, The New York Times, Electric Literature, and The Paris Review, among many others.
Ramona is also a beloved teacher of writing, having taught at Tin House, Bread Loaf, and several MFA programs including the Institute of American Indian Arts and Bennington. She’s currently a professor at Colorado State University. Her new book, Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading From the Blank Page to the Last Page, is a creative companion for writers at every stage of the process, and it will be out April 14, 2026 from Tin House/Zando.